Minding Your Mind is honored to have been chosen as an Official Charity Partner for 2026! 

Scheduled for Sunday, November 1, 2026, the TCS New York City Marathon is the largest marathon in the world and is one of the World Marathon Majors. Marathon host New York Road Runners (NYRR) is holding a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of its five-borough New York City Marathon course. First run as a five-borough race in 1976 to celebrate the nation’s Bicentennial and uplift the city, the New York City Marathon set the standard for the modern marathon and is now the world’s largest, bringing together nearly 60,000 runners and more than two million spectators to experience the transformative power of running every first Sunday of November.

The TCS New York City Marathon Official Charity Partner Program supports other nonprofit missions and services by giving organizations guaranteed entries to the TCS New York City Marathon for athletes to fundraise on their behalf. In celebration of the 50th running of the five-borough course anniversary, in 2026, New York Road Runners is expanding its TCS New York City Marathon Official Charity Partner Program to include more than 670 charities—the most ever. Minding Your Mind is honored to be chosen as a member of this historic group.

WHO WE ARE

Minding Your Mind provides mental health education and suicide prevention training in schools, communities, and workplaces around the country.

Our goal as an organization is to reduce stigma and end the destructive behaviors often associated with mental health challenges.

We teach children as young as kindergarten how to talk about their emotions and find positive ways to express themselves. Our Changing Minds: Stories Over Stigma program is for middle-school, high-school, college students and features young adults who share their lived experience in coming through a mental health crisis to let them know they aren’t alone and help is available. Our clinicians provide presentations to adults that share the signs and symptoms of common mental health challenges and teaches them how to support the youth in their lives. Minding Your Mind programs move away from crisis-based response to prevention through education.

By joining Team Minding Your Mind, your fundraising efforts will provide these programs to schools and organizations that would otherwise be unable to host one. Your commitment to Minding Your Mind will change, and save, lives.

APPLICATION

If you are interested in running with Team Minding Your Mind, please complete the form below. We have 15 entries available and typically receive inquiries in the hundreds. Runners are chosen based on their connection to our mission and their commitment to fundraising goals.

Applications will be accepted through March 6, 2026. Those chosen for Team Minding Your Mind will be notified on Friday, March 13, 2026.

For questions, please contact Maura Wheeler.